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lucy munchkin

im a single parent to two young childern 1 age 4 and the other 2yr 4 months and my youngest has been diagnoses with autisum. i just cant come to terms with it.

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  • Hi there,

    Everything you said rang true to me. I have an 11 year old son with an "atypical diagnosis" ie purely on the social interaction domain. I managed to get him into a special school for children with ASD's as the only other option for him that the LEA were offering were EBD schools - he'd been at one of those for 4 years and it was a disaster. I've had 9 years of being made to feel like a bad parent and even my own mother telling me she could do a better job. My 14 year old daughter is fine - so how can one parent create such vast discrepancies in their 2 children.

    I too am coming to terms with the fact that we will never be a properly functioning family. I still don't feel we have the full picture of my Son's difficulties, and CAMHS seem to have run out of ideas. I'm now looking for referrals to a more specialist service to see if there are any other underlying associated conditions that have been missed. I feel only when we have the full picture will I be able to enlist the right support for my son and for us as a family. Did you have to jump through hoops too?

    Wishing you all the best

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  • Hi there,

    Everything you said rang true to me. I have an 11 year old son with an "atypical diagnosis" ie purely on the social interaction domain. I managed to get him into a special school for children with ASD's as the only other option for him that the LEA were offering were EBD schools - he'd been at one of those for 4 years and it was a disaster. I've had 9 years of being made to feel like a bad parent and even my own mother telling me she could do a better job. My 14 year old daughter is fine - so how can one parent create such vast discrepancies in their 2 children.

    I too am coming to terms with the fact that we will never be a properly functioning family. I still don't feel we have the full picture of my Son's difficulties, and CAMHS seem to have run out of ideas. I'm now looking for referrals to a more specialist service to see if there are any other underlying associated conditions that have been missed. I feel only when we have the full picture will I be able to enlist the right support for my son and for us as a family. Did you have to jump through hoops too?

    Wishing you all the best

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